Note the bottle of Pepsi, prominently displayed on Fashion Chickie's bedside table. Guess this was before the days when advertisers got caught in bald-faced lies: "Yup, we guarantee it - drink a Pepsi a day and you too can look like Anorexia Girl here..."
So, I have my Weightwatchers' meeting on Sunday mornings. I started in April (sorry, still working on transferring my blog, so you'd have to go HERE to go to my April 6th entry where I talked about joining Weightwatchers again.)
I started at 246 pounds, which means my 10% weight goal (the first big goal you have to get to) was 24 pounds. It took me freakin' MONTHS to lose this weight - first because I hurt my knee and couldn't exercise, then because I had a lot of problems with my own thinking, that kept me from losing the weight, and finally because I've been sick for several weeks, but today, after a lot of hard work and worrying, I FINALLY made my 10% weight goal, plus a bit more. I've now lost 26.8 pounds total, and I weigh 219.6. My goal is 120 pounds, so that's about 100lbs left to go.
Just to clarify, during the time I wasn't losing weight, I wasn't gaining it either - I just hung around the same weight for a really long time. The nice thing about that is that I've already proved to myself I can maintain my weight loss, when I DO lose the 100lbs.
It's a bit intimidating to say it out like that, 100 lbs, which is why I generally don't. I just think of it as 2 pounds a week, or thereabouts, which is a lot more palatable thought. So today, I got two awards - the 10% keychain, and the 25 pound award. This may sound cheezy, but they're actually pretty cool, because I can look at them to remind myself that I can do it, that I've already lost as much weight as most people need to lose, and that I can keep going all the way.
Today is laundry day. Gotta go be laundry girl.
Toodles!
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